CN1140578A

CN1140578A - Automatic breadmaker with interior lamp

Info

Publication number: CN1140578A
Application number: CN96107875A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 戴维·C·贝伦基亚; 安尼特·T·克吕普克
Original assignee: West Bend Co
Current assignee: West Bend Co
Priority date: 1995-06-05
Filing date: 1996-05-28
Publication date: 1997-01-22
Also published as: CA2171405A1; MX9601734A; JPH08322734A; US5568764A; EP0746980A1

Abstract

Disclosed is an automatic breadmaker of the type having an oven chamber for baking bread. The chamber is formed by a floor and wall members, including top, front, rear and side wall members. The breadmaker also has a pan in the oven chamber for containing a bread product. The improvement comprises a lamp secured to the top wall member, whereby light is directed downwardly to illuminate the bread product during baking.

Description

In the automatic bread baker of illumination is arranged

The present invention is relevant with the food device in general, more specifically says, and is relevant with the toast bread device.

The automatic bread baker of family expenses is popularized gradually, and main is because the user can prepare the special or flavor type bread that can't buy or be not easy to have bought at most of retail shops at home.The very popular Another reason of this bread baker is can be edible while hot immediately after baking.The hot side of new baking is surrounded by a kind of distinctive fragrance and loose, thereby increases appetite of people.

The example that many automatically roasting face machines are arranged in patent documentation, United States Patent (USP) 4294166 (Takeuchi); 4415,799 (Tanaka etc.) 4,776,265 (Ojima) and 4,984,512 (Takahashi etc.) only represent several bread baker, in the bread baker shown in these patents, wherein people's such as the patent of Ojima and Takahashi patent belongs to the overhead type bread baker, and people's such as the patent of Takeuchi and Tanaka patent then belongs to the forward type bread baker.

The domestic consumer always is intent on highly enough low roasting face machine so that can be fit to be placed in the kitchen cabinet, and most like this domestic consumer likes packing into from the bread baker top and taking out bread, rather than puts into and take out by the opening in dead ahead.

In order to satisfy also is the needs of the lower bread baker of the height of overhead type, and manufacturer makes the top cover of bread producing machine can rotate around the hinge of trailing edge, and the bread producing machine shown in (Ojima island) patent is a good example of this type bread baker.In order further to satisfy client's hobby, rotating top cover has been accomplished and can have been removed from bread baker fully.

At present the automatic bread baker of selling in the U.S. does not comprise the lighting installation of the food of containing in the bread plate, and in patent documentation also beyond example, military at least in, island, the bridge patent originally lamp of not shown any kind also.

No wonder guarantor's laboratory is to having been stipulated extremely strict requirement by the lamp of lead power supply, if lamp separates with its conductor, just take to be provided with the mode of certain plug and socket, Tanaka's (Tanaka) etc. patent shows that the lamp that is placed on bread baker one side is positioned at after the grill and grill has blocked this lamp and emits beam, even grill does not obstruct the light, the position that this lamp is settled also is not enough to illuminate the top of bread fully.

A kind of have that to illuminate the interior space downwards will be major progress to existing technology from the top by the roasting automatically face machine of the modified of the lamp of common wiring power supply.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of automatic bread baker that has some problem and defective that can overcome in the prior art.

Another object of the present invention provides a kind of top-down automatic bread baker that illuminates the thing of being baked in the bread producing machine that is provided with.

A further object of the present invention provides a kind of automatic bread baker of not considering to adopt dedicated wires and forming.

Another object of the present invention provides a kind of interior lamp with by common inflexibility line powered.

A present invention also purpose provides a kind of constant lamp of wiring that illuminates pastries from top to bottom that has.

The present invention more has a purpose to provide a kind ofly to make the non-reverberation from interior lamp can not damage the ability that the user sees liquidation inner face bag food.Make everybody become fully aware of in conjunction with the accompanying drawings from specification hereinafter to how reaching these purposes.

The present invention is a kind of automatic bread baker with cook bread furnace chamber type, and this furnace chamber is made of furnace bottom and furnace wall, and the furnace wall then comprises parts such as top, antetheca, rear wall and sidewall, and a plate that holds bread food is arranged in the furnace chamber of bread baker.

Improving content comprises illuminating lamp is fixed on the roof, the lamp of She Zhiing light when baking just can illuminate bread product downwards like this, this lamp that is directed downwards comprises the in fact vertical light that points to, be more preferably the light of the non-perpendicular sensing that also comprises vertical sensing light both sides, in a most preferred embodiment, lamp is just above bread plate.

This new bread baker also has a non-vertical up and down observation window that is fixed on the furnace wall, plate top, the user sees through the bread that observation window can be seen baking from observing the district, preferable is that this bread baker also has a fence (barrier) that is inserted between lamp and the observation district, and in fact this fence can prevent to enter the observation district from the direct light of lamp.Because this lamp remains actionless when door is turned on, so need not consider to adopt special lead.

Details of the present invention will be hereinafter specification and accompanying drawing in described in detail.

Fig. 1 is the front perspective view of new bread baker;

Fig. 2 is the perspective view of the toast bread gate of Fig. 1 when opening;

Fig. 3 is the bread baker of Fig. 1 and door omits and have the cross section and perspective of parts shown in the section;

Fig. 4 is the cross section and perspective that the vertical plane of lamp was got in the bread baker of Fig. 1 extended through from front to back along, and lamp illustrates with whole profile in this;

Fig. 5 is the side view of the signal of Fig. 1 bread baker, and parts are illustrated by dotted outline;

Fig. 6 is the schematic front view that the lamp of the bread product of putting on the bread plate is illuminated in expression in Fig. 1 bread baker inner chamber;

Fig. 7 is the diagrammatic side view that the lamp of the bread product of putting on the bread plate is illuminated in expression in the inner chamber of Fig. 1 bread baker.

Some definition meetings are helpful to understanding the present invention, are referred to as " length " in the specification and generally mean at Fig. 12,3 and seen in Figure 4 from left to right measure size, " bread product " refers to the dough of a) manufacturing a bread, the b) bread of baking, (c) the good bread of baking.

With reference to accompanying drawing, new automatic bread baker 10 has the cabin 13 on a base plate 11 and the base plate, and this cabin 13 is with a controller and CD-ROM drive motor (not shown).

Furnace chamber 19 next-door neighbour cabin bodies 13, it is respectively by part base plate 11 and roof, rear wall and

sidewall

29,31 and 33 formations, this bread baker 10 has the entrance door that can laterally open 23, observation window on the door can coil 27 and be contained in the furnace chamber 19 to hold bread product 37 user from observing district's 35 processes of watching kneading and baking.

In a most preferred embodiment, entrance door 23 usefulness hinges are made lateral rotation around a vertical axis 39 with horizontal direction.When entrance door 23 was closed, this 23 extended upward and is cambered surface backward along furnace bottom face 11 and bend to the directly position above bread plate 27.When entrance door 23 was opened, this bread baker 10 had a very big open spaces, promptly at the top, antetheca and sidewall all open wide, it is very convenient therefore to put into and take out bread plate 27.

Particularly with reference to Fig. 4 and Fig. 5, the observation window 25 of non-perpendicular (promptly being certain angle) is fastened on the top position of bread plate 27 with respect to roof 29 rear walls 31 and sidewall 33, and the user sees through observation window 25 and can see bread product 37 from observing district 35.

Especially with reference to Fig. 3,4,5,6 and 7, interior lamp 47 is installed in the lamp socket 49, and the assembly fixture 51 of lamp socket generally is respectively the joint that is fastened on roof 29 and rear wall 31, and the position of this lamp 47 is laterally (see into about to) between two groups of air channel 53a and 53b in louver skylight 55 in Fig. 1, these two groups of groove 53a, 53b furnace chamber 19 communicates with atmosphere.

Louver skylight 55 comprises a grating (barrier) 57 that is inserted in lamp 47 and observes to distinguish the atresia between 35 in an embodiment, grating 57 is the ventilation air drain filling light-proof materials by louver skylight 55 zone lines, for example the louver skylight molded plastics constitute, also can be in another way, the two groups of slotted eye 53a and the 53b that are louver skylight 55 do not extend on whole length in skylight 55, and these slotted eyes are cut off between therefrom by grating 57.

As Fig. 3, shown in 4,6 and 7, interior lamp 47 is positioned at bread plate 27 tops and just directly illuminates bread product 37 downwards in the baking time like this, and light is represented with arrow 65.In fact this downward light 65 comprise light 65 (representing with arrow 65a) vertically downward herein, is more preferably and also is included in the non-perpendicular downward light of light both sides vertically downward, and this non-perpendicular downward light is represented with arrow 65b.

To should be clear in the principle of the invention narration, institute be for only being embodiment but being not limited thereto in conjunction with specific embodiments.

Claims

1. the automatic bread baker of this pattern has the furnace chamber of a toast bread, this furnace chamber is by a bottom surface and comprise that the wallboard of roof, antetheca, rear wall and sidewall constitutes, in the furnace chamber and a dish that is used to hold bread product arranged, it is characterized in that this bread baker is considered comprises a lamp that is fastened on the roof, thereby when baking, downward illumination is bright bread product.

2. automatic bread baker according to claim 1 is characterized in that downward light has in fact comprised light vertically downward.

3. automatic bread baker according to claim 2 is characterized in that downward light comprises the non-perpendicular downward light of the both sides of light vertically downward.

4. automatic bread baker according to claim 1 is characterized in that lamp is above bread plate.

5. automatic bread baker according to claim 1 also comprises one with respect to each wallboard, is fastened on the non-perpendicular observation window of the top position of bread plate.

6. automatic bread baker according to claim 5 is characterized in that lamp is above bread plate.

7. automatic bread baker according to claim 5 is characterized in that: the user can see bread product through observation window from observing the district; With

Bread baker comprises a grating that is inserted between lamp and the observation district, thereby the direct light that prevents lamp enters the observation district.

8. an automatic bread baker has a furnace chamber and a dish that holds bread in furnace chamber that is used for toast bread, it is characterized in that bread baker comprises a lamp above bread plate, makes downward light can illuminate bread product.

9. automatic bread baker according to claim 8 also comprises one with respect to each wallboard, the fastening non-perpendicular observation window in the bread plate top position.

10. automatic bread baker according to claim 8 also comprises a door, and when door when turning on the lamp in it be actionless.